Tandaleya is host of Shegotgame.com, an Internet radio show devoted to women's sport.
Women's sport has come on leaps and bounds so it's high time there was equal opportunity at the Olympics.
Schoneborn was the third winner of an event, which has only been a women's Olympic sport for eight years, after Britain's Stephanie Cook (Sydney 2000) and Zsuszanna Voros of Hungary (Athens 2004).
Even in women's tennis, a sport so often dominated by one superior star, it's rare for a player to win all four Grand Slam titles in her career.
Unlike on the beach-volleyball court, where a pair of U.S. women has snapped up three of the five gold medals the young Olympic sport has ever awarded, the U.S. women's volleyball team has never won gold.
Welsh rugby international Non Evans captains the women's team, her third sport in her second Games.
Women's golf is a huge sport in Asia, and Wie will cash in thanks to her Korean ancestry.
China, where millions play table tennis across the country, have never lost the women's singles crown since the sport was introduced at the 1988 Olympics.
"It's a great feather in our caps and ensures the eyes of the world is focused on Wales right before the beginning of the Olympics, " said former Wales women's captain and chair of Sport Wales Laura McAllister.
Sky will broadcast 13 matches live from the Women's World Cup, with BBC Sport showing highlights of the knock-out stages.
Sky will broadcast 10 matches live from the Women's World Cup, with BBC Sport showing highlights of the semi-finals and final.
Other women's sports - notably Twenty20 and one-day cricket, and netball - have received regular coverage on Sky Sports, while BBC Sport has shown women's hockey and Six Nations rugby online.
Karch Kiraly, the assistant coach of the U.S. women's volleyball team and a three-time Olympic gold medalist in the sport, says that physical contact is a sign of closeness.
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Women's beach volleyball, perhaps the quintessential American sport at the Summer Olympics, is about to get even more American.
As Elstrop helped to break down gender barriers in Britain in what was traditionally thought of as a boy's sport, she is helping the Palestinian women to do the same.
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Maura Muldoon, chairperson of the Women's Football Association, said the restriction had to go to enable the sport to be all inclusive.
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The ultraconservative kingdom fielded its first female athletes at the London Olympics last summer, and discussions under way could lead to women's private sports clubs being allowed to formally register with the Ministry of Sport.
But as women's soccer has gained popularity, the FA recently decided to reorganize the sport and it demoted the Donny Belles to a second division in favor of those deep pockets from Manchester City whose women's team has never played in the top division and isn't very good.
Kate Haywood took bronze for England in the women's 50m breaststroke, while Stephanie Millward added another English bronze in the Para sport 50m freestyle S9, won by South Africa's Natalie du Toit.
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Despite their positive position in the sport, Clare admits funding is a constant problem for the GB women's team, who have just appointed a new coach in Dan McCaffrey.
Many people think that this is a new Olympic sport for women and know little if anything about the fact that women's boxing has a history that stretches back to the 18th century in many parts of the world.
The England Women's rugby captain decided the summer months would be best spent dedicating herself to her sport and so, sacrificing the security of a monthly wage, she resigned from her job as an office manager to pursue her ultimate goal of winning the Women's World Cup.
Pops of color were another important trend of the JFK '60s decade and can now be found in sport coats, says Brad Habansky, owner of Guise Chic, a men's and women's lifestyle boutique in Chicago.
Across the U.S. and Canada, a resurgence of table hockey is under way, drawing younger players and women to a sport that has long been the domain of older men in their basements reliving a game that hasn't been popular since they were kids.
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The Golden Bear was one of the earliest and most vocal advocates for golf as an Olympic sport, and in making his bid he shrewdly teamed with Annika Sorenstam, the former longtime women's world No. 1 (and a European to boot, adding international appeal).
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